The War: Gathering Protest

President Nixon's eight-month period of relative immunity from criticism
on the Viet Nam war was over. The opponents of the war came out
spoiling for a fight. A freshman Republican Senator, New York's
conservative-turned-liberal, Charles Goodell, even had the temerity to
introduce legislation asking the Congress to take the unheard-of step
of cutting off all funds for U.S. participation in the war as of
December 1, 1970. Of course, there is virtually no chance for his
measure to become law.

But the proposal served to reopen debate on the war, largely muted since
Nixon...